Jazz or non-jazz photos

[Big Al]

Now THAT looks like Michigan. The sunsets there are gorgeous.

[Big Al]

That is TOO cute!

[A Lark Ascending]

Bev, you have aroused our curiosity, but your images didn't come through.

I'm still not sure how to do this properly - tried to post some larger versions, so I suspect that caused the trouble. I've put the smaller ones up.

This is how Bentinck Colliery is commemorated...the site is now an industrial estate - modern warehouses etc (thus the strange multicoloured things behind):

Not much to show for what once looked like this:

When I came for interview here in 1977 from the 'soft south' I can recall being awestruck by these giant collieries.

I suppose a similar tale can be told in Pennsylvania and many other places in the world.

Edited March 20, 2008 by Bev Stapleton

[Guest Bill Barton]

Von Freeman at Tula's in Seattle

[Big Al]

A favorite of mine, taken from the middle of Lake Grapevine:

Cyndy took this one from inside her uncle's cabin on Wall Lake in Michigan:

[Randy Twizzle]

A random group of people outside Grand Central Terminal

[BFrank]

A handful of shots from SXSW in Austin last week.

REM

The Stills

The Sadies w/Andre Williams

The Chevelles

X

Sixth Street at mid-festival

[A Lark Ascending]

Pictures came through fine this time, Bev. What happened, was the coal depleted?

Still plenty underground. Two things happened:

a) It proved cheaper to import surface deposits from mainland Europe for power stations than to extend underground mining.

b) The Thatcher government had a vendetta against the miners because of previous political humiliations and essentially set out to destroy the industry - which is why I think so little surface evidence has survived. What is ironic is that in the great strike of 1984-5 most Notts miners carried on working, partly out of resentment towards the mining union leadership, partly out of a sense that the Notts pits (as modern' pits) had a good future. Thatcher encouraged them in these beliefs...and then, once the union was defeated, wiped them out as well.

If you've not seen the movie 'Brassed Off' try and borrow a copy - a romanticised tale but a wonderful story of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity during the days of the closures.

Interestingly, there was an article in the Guardian last weekend about one of a handful of local collieries that have survived and how, with soaring energy costs, it is taking on new workers!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/mar/15/2

[RDK]

Taken last year on a whale-watching trip - though it's obviously not a whale!

[aparxa]

Spring !

At least, good plans for the week-end.

Edited March 21, 2008 by aparxa

[White Lightning]

Jazz or no Jazz?

Trumpet player Corey Wilkes Blows the Shofar in front of El-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem

[White Lightning]

Jazz or no Jazz?

Sax player Ernest Dawkins buys some bells for the evening concert. Jerusalem.

[Big Al]

A handful of shots from SXSW in Austin last week.

The Chevelles

Where was that picture taken? That place looks familiar.

[Chalupa]

920 Clinton???? Nice block.

Edit: I thought you lived in West Philly??

Edited March 21, 2008 by J.H. Deeley

[BFrank]

A handful of shots from SXSW in Austin last week.

The Chevelles

Where was that picture taken? That place looks familiar.

A bar called BD Riley's. You been there?

[BERIGAN]

A foggy morn a few months back. Clearly, I am deeply in love with my neighbor's tree!

The other side of our front yard...am ambivalent about it...

[king ubu]

our backyard, thirty minutes ago:

[king ubu]

and ten minutes later:

[Big Al]

A handful of shots from SXSW in Austin last week.

The Chevelles

Where was that picture taken? That place looks familiar.

A bar called BD Riley's. You been there?

No. I was thinking of this one place, and now I can't remember the street it's on; all I know is it intersects Lamar, just south of the river (it's the same street that Chuy's is on). And now I can't remember the name of the place either.

[Big Al]

I was so mad last night: we were driving over a bridge over I-20 and I could see the moon as it had just fully risen above the horizon. It looked like a giant pumpkin! We were a few seconds away from the house, so as soon as we got home, I ran in, grabbed my camera and headed back to the bridge. When I got there, the moon had disappeared behind a big patch of clouds on an otherwise partly cloudy night. AAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!

[BERIGAN]

and ten minutes later:

Hailstorm, correct??? If it was, how big were those suckers???

[BERIGAN]

Trash your ambivalence, Conrad, the photos are beautiful. If I were a large green moth, I'd flutter in that direction, too!

[BFrank]

I looked out the window this evening and saw some trees catching a setting sun. Rather liked it, so here 'tis:

Nice shot, Chris........good timing.

[BFrank]

A handful of shots from SXSW in Austin last week.

The Chevelles

Where was that picture taken? That place looks familiar.

A bar called BD Riley's. You been there?

No. I was thinking of this one place, and now I can't remember the street it's on; all I know is it intersects Lamar, just south of the river (it's the same street that Chuy's is on). And now I can't remember the name of the place either.

Are you thinking of The Continental Club on S. Congress?

[Aggie87]

This is a pictures of my kids (and my two nephews) about 3 years ago in Austin.